Workers' Compensation News
|
Portable Benefits Proposal is Back in Carryover Bill | 01/28/2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Legislation that would create a system of portable benefits for gig economy workers is getting another shot in the New Jersey Legislature. ...Read More | |||
|
Property Owner Has No Liability for Worker's Fall | 01/25/2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a property owner was entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s Labor Law claim based on a fall from a ladder. ...Read More | |||
|
Panel Overturns Denial of Claim for Worker With Fungal Infection in Lungs | 01/22/2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Tennessee Supreme Court’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel overturned a denial of benefits to a worker who developed a fungal infection in his lungs after digging a trench at a landfill. ...Read More | |||
|
Preferred Employers Insurance Hires New Sr. Underwriter | 01/17/2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Minoo Bhatia (Cision photo) Pr...Read More | |||
|
Pain-Measurement Device Could Have Many Comp Applications | 01/14/2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An experimental device intended to measure a patient’s pain by checking the pupil response to different stimuli could have many applications in workers’ comp but would need to be used with caution, some say. ...Read More | |||
|
Property Owner, Contractor Had No Labor Law Liability | 01/14/2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a jury’s determination that a property owner and general contractor were not liable for a construction worker’s burn injuries. ...Read More | |||
|
Prosecutors: Man Claiming Crash Was Work-Related Was on His Way to Court | 01/11/2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A south Florida man said he was on his way to a job site last summer when his vehicle struck a guardrail. He was injured and collected more than $135,000 on the workers' compensation claim. ...Read More | |||
|
Passage of Time Barred Worker From Seeking TTD | 01/10/2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: MD | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that a worker was time-barred from asserting a claim for temporary total disability benefits more than five years after her injury. ...Read More | |||
|
Philip Welt Named EVP, General Counsel at W.R. Berkley | 01/04/2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| W.R. Berkley Corp. has named Philip Welt as executive vice president and general counsel, while Joseph Sullivan and Michael Maloney have been appointed as executive vice presidents to oversee certain operating units. ...Read More | |||
|
Prison Guard Falsified Documents to Get Benefits, State Says | 01/04/2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A prison guard in Buffalo has been indicted on charges that he falsified medical documents in order to receive more than $4,000 in workers' compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
